Category:Levi H. Focht

Levi H. Focht (August 3, 1850–July 12, 1917) was a building contractor from Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. In 1874, he moved his company office to Reading, Pennsylvania. The company built dozens of stations for the Reading Railroad, most of them designed by architect Frank Furness. It also built four major bridges over the Schuylkill River -- the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Birdsboro (1901), the Dauberville Bridge (1909, replaced 1991), the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Poplar Neck (1913), and the Penn Street Viaduct at Reading (1913). Focht's son Walter became a partner in the company in 1906, which was renamed L. H. Focht & Son. The company built Birdsboro's Methodist church (1911), for which Focht and his wife were the primary donors. Following her death, it was renamed the Alice Focht Memorial United Methodist Church.